The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-21
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMESTIC.

A Lawrence MASS despatch says; oohh
Butterworth, who was sentenced IN october,
murder, became n free man on the 10th by
credit of good conduct during his imprison'
ment
The general committee of the Associated
British Societies connected WIN tine recent
celebration of Queen Nictorias jubilee met az
the Quincy House, Boston. Votes OF thanks
were adopted and extended to all VINO aided
them. The committee finally resolved Itself
into a meeting for the purpose of promoting
naturalization, every british resiueht oeinS
requested TO naturaZe.
A terrible accident occurred on the 18th Mt
the crossing of the Grand Trunk and Michi-
gan Central roads at ST. Thomas, Ont. An
excursion train ran into an oil train, the
cars took fire, and many persons lost their
lives.
The Grand Trunk railway has been found
guilty of the death of two men by gross neg
lect at crossing.
Three stories about DR.. McGlym have
been published: One that he would sail on
European pleasure trip ON August %; an
other that he would sue Archbishop Corrigan
lowed an uncle to die in poverty in Pennsyl-
vania. He has denied all of them.
A combination of the principal envelope
manufacturers of the country to advance
prices has been effected.
Dr. McGlynn says his sentence will not
stand.
At St Paul, Mimi, on the night of the 14th,
breeze brought from the south countless
millions of bugs, which swarmed around
every light Around the electric lights they
seemed to congregate in greater number than
elsewhere, and some of the streets were liter
ally covered with the pests in some places,
the sidewalks being covered to depth OF
over a foot The trees near electric lights
were covered with bugs, giving the trees the
appearance of being moving masses OF life
while the electric light wires were strung
with the insects
Lilly Schwabach of New York City, 20
years old and a bride of three weeks, conf
mitted suicide with Trough on Rats and
arsenic She recently married julius
Schwabach, a-well.to-do hoopskirt manufac-
turer, who installed her in squalid apart
ments over his shop in a disreputable portion
of the city. She begged him to provide her
with comfortable home, such as she had
been accustomed to, and as he refused to, she
took her life
At the Lake Bluff, H., convocation of wo-
man suffragists, Rev. Dr. Evans made an
argument in favor of womans infranchise-
ment, during which he said; "There are 100
women ministers, so women lawyers, and
in the United States. Seventy-five per cent.
of the teachers are women" Pundita Rema-
bal, high caste Brahmin lady, who has
studied for four years in England and
America, and who is most devoted to the ele-
walton of her own class in India, made
speech on the women in India.
The Brooklyn elevated road is manned by
non-union men.
Southern Arizona has been visited by very
severe transforms and cloudbursts during the
pat week. The rainfall is unprecedented
Hon Leonard Sweet, once Lincoi1's law
partner, has married his bookkeeper, Miss
Marie Decker
The Southern Dakota convention has passed
resolutions demanding admission to the
Union, but in two states.
The Catholic News of New York, calls on
the Catholic societies of the surrounding
cities to appoint delegates to general coun-
Gil, shortly to be held, at which steps will be
taken to make arrangements for public
meeting and parade in the metropolis in
honor of the golden jubilee of Leo Kills
priesthood. The Catholic News. in pointing
out the necessity and feasibility of the project,
says temporal sovereigns, whose sway
is territorially limited, are honored in birth
| day fetes in our principal cities Now if an
niveIsay celebrations like these reflect credit
| from national point of view, or their pro-
| jectors and the rulers are honored, is it not
| reasonable to suppose that celebration III
Leo's honor would be more successful when
spiritual allegiance is universal and respect
and homage uneonfined by nationality"
| Returns from summer resorts report all I'M
precedented summer travel,
! Mayor Francis of st Louis, has appointed
| the committees to carry the invitation to
| President Cleveland to visit the city of St.
| fl,,f
citizens are represented by one of their race.
The people of Paramount, Ind, blew up a
building with dynamite to prevent the pro
posed opening of a liquor saloon.
Jean P. Soquet, who murdered his wife II
years ago, was sentenced at Greenshay, Wis,
to life imprisonment After numbering his
wife he married a Mrs Mainsaid who dis
appeared under strange circumstances just
before Soquet's arrest, six months ago.
The arrest at Chicago of Adam Racke a
German, for counterfeiting, is reported.
Henry T. Chanfrau's the actors wife died
at Long Branch on July 18th.
Capt Harry W Horne, in his lecture on
'Thc Far West" declares that Gen. Custer
met his death in trap set by others than
Indians.
Lightning struck church at Mt. Olivet
Tenn, and knocked 100 people senselcss: only
| one person seriously injured.
An Iowa man had two narrow escapes
from lynching on charge of numbering a
man who proves to be alive.
| A violent wind and rain storm passed ovel
New York, on night of 10Th. doing nucl
damage. Trees We're torn up, fences ant
signs blown down and wires badly mixed
The police patrol boat rescued about 30 occu
pants of capsized sailboats. Two schoonen
dragged their anchors and collided in tht
bay. In Brooklyn, IA twostory building wa
blown down and six roofs torn off.